Lingen art gallery

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The Kunsthalle Lingen is the center for contemporary art in Lingen (Ems) . The Kunsthalle is supported by the Lingen Art Association, founded in 1983. On October 12, 1997, the art gallery was opened as part of the restored industrial building in Hall IV. The founding director is Heiner Schepers, who ran the art gallery until 2008. Meike Behm has been the managing director of the Kunstverein and director of the Kunsthalle since 2009.

program

The program of the Kunsthalle reflects the local, national and international art scene in solo and group exhibitions. The educational mandate of the Kunstverein Kunsthalle Lingen is to promote and convey contemporary visual art. The inclusion of cultural producers from different areas enables an interdisciplinary exchange and establishes the Lingener Kunsthalle as an open forum for discussions of various approaches.

The Kunsthalle Lingen maintains and looks after part of the estate of the artist Harry Kramer , born in Lingen in 1925 , ("the hairdresser from Lingen"), who took part in documenta III in Kassel in 1964 and died there in 1997. It presents his work, which is rich in form and content, in excerpts so that different aspects are conveyed.

Location

The art gallery is part of "Hall IV", the northernmost part of the Royal Hanoverian station workshops , which were built in Lingen since 1856 on the Hanoverian Western Railway , which runs parallel to the border with the Netherlands . They later became the Reichs- and even later the Bundesbahn- repair shop . The art hall is located in the so-called "new booth" of the former railway works, which in 1908 replaced the 33-year-old locomotive hall ("old booth") and became the main warehouse after the construction of the large locomotive hall I / II. The repair shop was closed in the mid-1980s.

In 1990 the city of Lingen acquired the area and gradually prepared the industrial wasteland, which is now under monument protection, for re-use. Starting in 1995 , Hall IV and four other halls, which have now been restored, accommodate office and work rooms at the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences (Lingen location), a studio for the Ems-Vechte-Welle open channel , the regional TV station EV1.TV and other IT companies - and service area as well as meeting rooms and a small restaurant. Since 2007, an underpass has been connecting the area with Theo-Lingen- Platz to the west of the railway line , the train station and the city center. Since the beginning of the winter semester 2012/13, the completely renovated Lokrichthalle I / II has been completing the university campus of the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences, Lingen.

Lingen Art Prize

The Lingen Art Prize for Contemporary Painting has been financed by citizens and companies from Lingen and the region since 1983. Since 2004 the members of the Friends of the Lingen Art Prize have played a major role in this. The aim of the prize, which is now awarded every two years, is to promote younger painters and thereby bring current art closer to the people of the region. The prize, endowed with 7,500 euros, is linked to a solo exhibition in the Lingen art gallery and the publication of a catalog. The city of Lingen regularly purchases a central piece of work for the city's art collection. While very young artists were asked to apply in the first 10 years, 12 European galleries are now invited to propose two applicants each who have completed their studies for at least 3 years. An independent jury selects the winner from these; it includes two specialist jurors from the art scene, the director of the Kunsthalle Lingen and three members of the Friends of the Lingen Art Prize as lay jurors.

The previous winners:

Exhibitions (selection)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Willhardt (Ed.): A hairdresser from Lingen. Harry Kramer . Luca-Verlag, Freren 1990, ISBN 3-923641-30-3 .